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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;KSorbo, post: 1887052, member: 56370&quot;]I really appreciate everyone&#039;s insight on my question.&nbsp; I never would have thought that my posting would have generated so much heated discussion.</p><p><br /></p><p>I definitely don&#039;t expect to get rich collecting coins.&nbsp; However, one of the joys of collecting, at least for me, is owning coins that are genuinely scarce and in demand, and it&#039;s always nice to see my coins increase in value even if I may never sell them.&nbsp; There are lots of coins that are valuable now that we wish we could go back in time and stock up on.&nbsp; Wouldn&#039;t it be nice to go back to 1983 and buy a mint sewn bag of quarters?&nbsp; Back in 1998 I bought a Russian mint set at a Moscow flea market for about $15.&nbsp; These coins have no precious metal content and their face value was already worthless when I bought them due to hyperinflation.&nbsp;&nbsp; However, they aren&#039;t &quot;junk&quot; or &quot;worthless&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; anymore because that set is selling for around $400 on Ebay.&nbsp; Who would have thought that the Russian coin market would skyrocket due to a massive increase in ordinary Russians&#039; standard of living?&nbsp; Economics is always full of surprises and supply and demand can come together in ways we least expect.</p><p><br /></p><p>Even if Ike dollars never take off it&#039;s still fun to speculate a little bit.&nbsp; Regardless of whether the design is ugly, it is the only circulation coin that celebrates our accomplishment of landing on the moon, so maybe sometime it will cease to be &quot;modern&quot; and become a classic.&nbsp; (I guess the Susan B&#039;s have the lunar reverse as well but those really are ugly...)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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